Learning to use AES encryption

I've started working on a simple credentials manager app that runs on the console and I wanted the credentials that are kept on file to be encrypted for obvious reasons. The app is written in C++ and I needed to find and work with an appropriate encryption library. I've tried using two libraries: OpenSSL and …

Git shallow cloning stuff

so after you use shallow cloning in git using --depth 1, if you call git pull you will find that git will pull all changes not just --depth 1. to honour the --depth 1 from cloning we call call git pull with the same depth: git pull --depth 1 origin master life saving stuff

Quick cloning of kernel mainline

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git linux_mainline using github as it's a mirror of mainline and depending where you're accessing the internet from, much faster. the --depth 1 will limit the history to 1 commit back I believe. If you'd need to view more than that then you can probably use git log -- [filename] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/278192/view-the-change-history-of-a-file-using-git-versioning

Quake 2 tools

Over the past few weeks (perhaps few months) I've been trying to create a few Quake 2 tools that can run on the browser from scratch. I've started working with a Pak extractor tool that should allow you to load a pak archive, page/search through all items, add/remove items from the archive and also allow …

Quake 2 map compiling

So after making use of a level editing tool you can save your level as a .map file. For you to be able to run this level you'll need to compile it using a bsp compiler. Below is a simple example of how to run the tool: qbsp3 -gamedir "c:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\Quake II" ..\test1.map